This ship paper model is the Coast Guard Cutter Lilac, a 1933 lighthouse tender that once carried supplies to lighthouses and maintained buoys for the U.S. Lighthouse Service and the U.S. Coast Guard, the papercraft is designed by RocketmanTan.

USCG Cutter Lilac was decommissioned in 1972, she is now owned by the non-profit Lilac Preservation Project. She is America's only surviving steam-powered lighthouse tender. LILAC is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is eligible to become a National Historic Landmark.